Abstract (in English)

This paper explores the way in which places and senses
mutually create/recreate each other. Emphasis is placed on how
places are experienced, but are also created through
conceptualisation and imagining: place is not only the physicality
of being ‘here’, but also imagined through layers of memories,
often of other places, and sometimes grounded in the memory of
others. Specific reference is made to the Port Arthur Historic Site,
which is conceptualised variously as convict heritage place (World
Heritage nominated), community place, tragedy place and tourism
place. The paper applies theoretical approaches combining
philosophical and anthropological understandings of space and
place, which explicate the multi-vocality of landscapes that
enmesh people, place and time. It is shown that spirit and place
become embedded in a flow of power and negotiation of social
relations that are rendered in the physicality of tangible elements
and the embodiment of imagination, memories and symbolic
attributions.